Wedding Guest Book Pursuits
Traditional conventional brides do not have to have traditional conventional guest books. Certainly you can buy an average guest book and ask your invitees to sign it, but there are so many more guest book-like pursuits that are more unique.
Let’s move from the popular to the less well known. One very fashionable option allows guests to sign a photo of the bride and groom. Simply take a picture of the the happy couple and have it matted in a mat several ins bigger than the photo itself. Place a frame around this, but don’t include the glass or Plexiglas frame. You’ll include this later. Some individuals prefer to use “bulldog” clips to keep the mat together instead of putting the picture in the frame. The picture may be framed after the wedding ceremony.
Most couples select a nice photo of themselves for this picture/guestbook option, although if there’s a formal espousal photo, this is a fantastic way to preserve that photo and show it off to friends and relations. If photos are taken before the wedding with the bride and groom in their wedding attire, you can for certain use this photo. Many couples decide to either leave the mat empty or they place a short lived picture in the mat and add a wedding picture later.
Be certain to possess a nice Sharpie marker handy and position the picture on either a sturdy easel or on a table where guests are certain to see it.
Another option is as opposed to providing an image of the the couple to sign, the people staying at the resort are supplied with a picture of themselves! Simply provide a Polaroid camera and assign someone the job of taking photographs of the guests as they reach the reception. Once the picture is dry, supply a Sharpie and they can sign the picture, make an observation to the bride and bridegroom or hand draw a silly picture. It can be whatever the guest wants it to be. This is a unique, and personal, method for guests to “sign in” at the marriage ceremony.
Whoever handles the taking of the pictures should also handle putting them in an album of some sort. A scrap booker might given a special memory book with the Polaroid pictures in it, or the pictures can easily be placed in a nice album and presented later to the the happy couple.
Many guests don’t give a lot of thought to the guest book. They whiz by the invitee book table more worried about getting their cocktail and hitting the dance floor. If this is a concern, supply a “traveling” guest book. Send each guest something either to sign or decorate before the wedding.
In this “traveling” guest book scenario, there are several options. One of the best is to send each guest a small piece of paper and ask them to write something meaningful or thoughtful for the the couple on it. The pieces of paper are returned prior to the wedding ceremony ( to ensure an improved response, given a self-addressed stamped envelope with the paper) and can be compiled in some meaningful means for the the happy couple and given to them on their marriage.
If the guest list is an imaginative or particularly close group, there’s one other alternative that is even more meaningful. Again, in a scrapbook fashion, send each guest a piece of paper to sign or decorate. The paper should be the size of a picture album, so it may be a 6 x 6 piece of paper, an 8 x 8 piece of paper, or even 12 x 12, if the guests are up to that larger size.
In a letter that arrives with the paper, the people staying at the resort are instructed to make a memory page for the the couple. They might include photos, quotes, little anecdotal stories, or combine all of these with stickers or embellishments. It’s thoughtful, meaningful and personal and it’s a superb way to add in guests who might not be able to attend the wedding, but would still like to be a component of it.
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